SELinux: Improve read/write performance

It reduces the selinux overhead on read/write by only revalidating
permissions in selinux_file_permission if the task or inode labels have
changed or the policy has changed since the open-time check.  A new LSM
hook, security_dentry_open, is added to capture the necessary state at open
time to allow this optimization.

(see http://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=118972995207740&w=2)

Signed-off-by: Yuichi Nakamura<ynakam@hitachisoft.jp>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 1d9e5e9..044bfa8 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -757,6 +757,10 @@ static struct file *__dentry_open(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt,
        f->f_op = fops_get(inode->i_fop);
        file_move(f, &inode->i_sb->s_files);
 
+       error = security_dentry_open(f);
+       if (error)
+               goto cleanup_all;
+
        if (!open && f->f_op)
                open = f->f_op->open;
        if (open) {

diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 1a15526..928d479 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -504,6 +504,13 @@ struct request_sock;
  *     @file contains the file structure being received.
  *     Return 0 if permission is granted.
  *
+ * Security hook for dentry
+ *
+ * @dentry_open
+ *     Save open-time permission checking state for later use upon
+ *     file_permission, and recheck access if anything has changed
+ *     since inode_permission.
+ *
  * Security hooks for task operations.
  *
  * @task_create:
@@ -1256,6 +1263,7 @@ struct security_operations {
        int (*file_send_sigiotask) (struct task_struct * tsk,
                                    struct fown_struct * fown, int sig);
        int (*file_receive) (struct file * file);
+       int (*dentry_open)  (struct file *file);
 
        int (*task_create) (unsigned long clone_flags);
        int (*task_alloc_security) (struct task_struct * p);
@@ -1864,6 +1872,11 @@ static inline int security_file_receive (struct file *file)
        return security_ops->file_receive (file);
 }
 
+static inline int security_dentry_open (struct file *file)
+{
+       return security_ops->dentry_open (file);
+}
+
 static inline int security_task_create (unsigned long clone_flags)
 {
        return security_ops->task_create (clone_flags);
@@ -2546,6 +2559,11 @@ static inline int security_file_receive (struct file *file)
        return 0;
 }
 
+static inline int security_dentry_open (struct file *file)
+{
+       return 0;
+}
+
 static inline int security_task_create (unsigned long clone_flags)
 {
        return 0;

diff --git a/security/dummy.c b/security/dummy.c
index 853ec22..64b647a 100644 (file)
--- a/security/dummy.c
+++ b/security/dummy.c
@@ -463,6 +463,11 @@ static int dummy_file_receive (struct file *file)
        return 0;
 }
 
+static int dummy_dentry_open (struct file *file)
+{
+       return 0;
+}
+
 static int dummy_task_create (unsigned long clone_flags)
 {
        return 0;
@@ -1033,6 +1038,7 @@ void security_fixup_ops (struct security_operations *ops)
        set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, file_set_fowner);
        set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, file_send_sigiotask);
        set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, file_receive);
+       set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, dentry_open);
        set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, task_create);
        set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, task_alloc_security);
        set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, task_free_security);

diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c
index 0e69adf..81b3dff 100644 (file)
--- a/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ b/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -916,3 +916,8 @@ int avc_has_perm(u32 ssid, u32 tsid, u16 tclass,
        avc_audit(ssid, tsid, tclass, requested, &avd, rc, auditdata);
        return rc;
 }
+
+u32 avc_policy_seqno(void)
+{
+       return avc_cache.latest_notif;
+}

diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index cf76150..97b7e27 100644 (file)
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
  *                          <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com>
  *  Copyright (C) 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
  *                     Paul Moore, <paul.moore@hp.com>
+ *  Copyright (C) 2007 Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd.
+ *                     Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam@hitachisoft.jp>
  *
  *     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  *     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
@@ -2464,7 +2466,7 @@ static int selinux_inode_listsecurity(struct inode *inode, char *buffer, size_t
 
 /* file security operations */
 
-static int selinux_file_permission(struct file *file, int mask)
+static int selinux_revalidate_file_permission(struct file *file, int mask)
 {
        int rc;
        struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
@@ -2486,6 +2488,25 @@ static int selinux_file_permission(struct file *file, int mask)
        return selinux_netlbl_inode_permission(inode, mask);
 }
 
+static int selinux_file_permission(struct file *file, int mask)
+{
+       struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+       struct task_security_struct *tsec = current->security;
+       struct file_security_struct *fsec = file->f_security;
+       struct inode_security_struct *isec = inode->i_security;
+
+       if (!mask) {
+               /* No permission to check.  Existence test. */
+               return 0;
+       }
+
+       if (tsec->sid == fsec->sid && fsec->isid == isec->sid
+           && fsec->pseqno == avc_policy_seqno())
+               return selinux_netlbl_inode_permission(inode, mask);
+
+       return selinux_revalidate_file_permission(file, mask);
+}
+
 static int selinux_file_alloc_security(struct file *file)
 {
        return file_alloc_security(file);
@@ -2725,6 +2746,34 @@ static int selinux_file_receive(struct file *file)
        return file_has_perm(current, file, file_to_av(file));
 }
 
+static int selinux_dentry_open(struct file *file)
+{
+       struct file_security_struct *fsec;
+       struct inode *inode;
+       struct inode_security_struct *isec;
+       inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+       fsec = file->f_security;
+       isec = inode->i_security;
+       /*
+        * Save inode label and policy sequence number
+        * at open-time so that selinux_file_permission
+        * can determine whether revalidation is necessary.
+        * Task label is already saved in the file security
+        * struct as its SID.
+        */
+       fsec->isid = isec->sid;
+       fsec->pseqno = avc_policy_seqno();
+       /*
+        * Since the inode label or policy seqno may have changed
+        * between the selinux_inode_permission check and the saving
+        * of state above, recheck that access is still permitted.
+        * Otherwise, access might never be revalidated against the
+        * new inode label or new policy.
+        * This check is not redundant - do not remove.
+        */
+       return inode_has_perm(current, inode, file_to_av(file), NULL);
+}
+
 /* task security operations */
 
 static int selinux_task_create(unsigned long clone_flags)
@@ -4794,6 +4843,8 @@ static struct security_operations selinux_ops = {
        .file_send_sigiotask =          selinux_file_send_sigiotask,
        .file_receive =                 selinux_file_receive,
 
+       .dentry_open =                  selinux_dentry_open,
+
        .task_create =                  selinux_task_create,
        .task_alloc_security =          selinux_task_alloc_security,
        .task_free_security =           selinux_task_free_security,

diff --git a/security/selinux/include/avc.h b/security/selinux/include/avc.h
index e145f6e..553607a 100644 (file)
--- a/security/selinux/include/avc.h
+++ b/security/selinux/include/avc.h
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ int avc_has_perm(u32 ssid, u32 tsid,
                  u16 tclass, u32 requested,
                  struct avc_audit_data *auditdata);
 
+u32 avc_policy_seqno(void);
+
 #define AVC_CALLBACK_GRANT             1
 #define AVC_CALLBACK_TRY_REVOKE                2
 #define AVC_CALLBACK_REVOKE            4

diff --git a/security/selinux/include/objsec.h b/security/selinux/include/objsec.h
index 91b88f0..642a9fd 100644 (file)
--- a/security/selinux/include/objsec.h
+++ b/security/selinux/include/objsec.h
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ struct file_security_struct {
        struct file *file;              /* back pointer to file object */
        u32 sid;              /* SID of open file description */
        u32 fown_sid;         /* SID of file owner (for SIGIO) */
+       u32 isid;             /* SID of inode at the time of file open */
+       u32 pseqno;           /* Policy seqno at the time of file open */
 };
 
 struct superblock_security_struct {